Design of Smart Nodes for RFID Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) are the two most important technologies in pervasive computing. Because of their different applications, researchers tend to research them respectively. This paper presents a new architecture for the integration of these two technologies, which is called RFID Wireless Sensor Networks, and gives the design of hardware circuit and software structure of smart nodes. Finally, we realizes the function of monitoring environment on the basis of a low-power microprocessor MSP430F5437, a RF transceiver CC2420, a RFID reader CC2500, and temperature, humidity, light intensity and pressure sensors.

[1]  Christian Floerkemeier,et al.  Comparison of transmission schemes for framed ALOHA based RFID protocols , 2006, International Symposium on Applications and the Internet Workshops (SAINTW'06).

[2]  Klaus Finkenzeller,et al.  Book Reviews: RFID Handbook: Fundamentals and Applications in Contactless Smart Cards and Identification, 2nd ed. , 2004, ACM Queue.

[3]  Ian F. Akyildiz,et al.  Sensor Networks , 2002, Encyclopedia of GIS.

[4]  Lei Zhang,et al.  Integration of RFID into Wireless Sensor Networks: Architectures, Opportunities and Challenging Problems , 2006, 2006 Fifth International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing Workshops.

[5]  Daeyoung Kim,et al.  The EPC Sensor Network for RFID and WSN Integration Infrastructure , 2007, Fifth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerComW'07).

[6]  Nina M. Berry,et al.  Integrated radio frequency identification and wireless sensor network architecture for automated inventory management and tracking applications , 2005, 2005 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference.

[7]  Gaurav S. Sukhatme,et al.  Connecting the Physical World with Pervasive Networks , 2002, IEEE Pervasive Comput..

[8]  Melody Moh,et al.  A prototype on RFID and sensor networks for elder healthcare: progress report , 2005, E-WIND '05.